OK, who here has their Birthday on the same week or day of Chrismas...

...like I do.

Did it wreck your gift getting when you were a kid?

:)

Love you baby! :hug:

:rofl:

worst. birthday. ever.

we will party hardy! it will be your favorite day of the year!

;)


:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

is on Xmas day and my daughter was born on New Years Eve. We've always tried to celebrate both birthdays without the holiday theme.

My daughter was born Dec 28, and my son was born Jan 6.

We make sure their birthdays are special days just for them.

and STILL people fucked with me...



"well this is your birthday too" :eyes:

uh, no it's not

:D :P :D :evilgrin:

Have always made sure it was treated separately and made special :hi:

When I was a kid yeah.. I used to get my presents split up between the two.

My family has always made sure that the birthday celebrations WERE birthday-themed. No one is allowed to wrap birthday presents in Christmas paper. There is birthday cake, etc. Not their fault they were born when they were. :party:

I don't like it.

The best thing was, I never got the bumps at school, because we'd be off for the week.

And my parents were considerate enough to have my birthday party in January, when all the festivities had died down.

Every birthday party was an "oooh, let's decorate the tree party" or if we got really wild, "lets go ice skating and then decorate the tree!"
When I was a kid I think parents/grammas made an effort to make sure it didn't cut into gifts though.

Now that I'm old I find that the gifts I get are few and far between, and somehow christmas related (decorations) or gift cards that I wind up using to buy people christmas gifts with. I'm also an adult now and I don't really care all that much anyway. I would like to be able to go out and not deal with snow and cold, however. Maybe I'll just start celebrating my half-birthday instead.

never really thought of it as a bad thing.

My immediate family (parents & sis) always exchanged Christmas Eve gifts too, so I kind of got presents 3 days in a row...which was great at the time. But it always started to suck by June (when my sis had her birthday) and I still had six months to wait.

Mine is on the 16th, and yes I too got one prezzie for both occasions. (And I'm also a product of a blended Jewish/Gentile family, so we never knew what to celebrate!) At the age of 12, I cured my cousin by saving the Xmas wrap till her b'day in June, wrapping up her prez and telling her in the middle of summer: "Oh, by the way, this is for Christmas as well as your birthday."

Didn't stop her, tho.

As a true Saj, I stomped my foot if I wasn't the centre of attention ALL the time, let alone on my birthday. And since my mother was born on Xmas day, I pretty well always got the party I wanted. Furthermore, when I was college-age, I could count on all my old friends to be home for the holidays and in our 20s, we were always up for another blow-out celebration.

But now I'm ancient--I'll be 51 in 4 days--and I'm so damned glad my b'day is under the radar and people are otherwise occupied, I can't begin to tell you. All that attention I once craved has become really boring; and I'm gonna take a LONG bike ride this weekend to celebrate by doing what I love.

So take heart, Children! There is good and bad to every birthday and our 2 signs are so FABULOUS that those who don't acknowledge us are the pathetic ones!!!!!

I ALWAYS make a big deal of the day, and do a bunch of stuff, as well as give a birthday present. She has said her parents also tried to do this when she was growing up. It kinda sucks all around, though...

oh yeah, december is fun around here. hubby is 45 this year, and is still whining about when he was a kid. and still pissy if anyone has any shopping or whatever happening on his day.

is the 26th, her brothers is the 24th.
She says it sucks.

And had a grand celebration. My parents started it - with my bday sleepovers combined with their New Year's bashes inviting my friends' parents (in retrospect, I'm sure they had some really awful guests considering what I now know about some of my friends' parents) besides their usual guests and the neighbors.

I have great memories of it as a wonderful day.

Even now we make it a big deal celebration whereby I get to throw the party and give champagne around to everyone else.

I love it.